a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) (01/28/89)
> dan writes: > > MSG-ID: <1865@sparkles.dcss.mcmaster.ca> > > Or should people start paying > >for posting? (***shiver*** :-)) > > oh oh, another can of worms... I can't resist though :-) > > > It will take money to expand the capacity of the network and the backbone > sites will have to charge for mail passing through their machines. Either > that or more uunet like sites will spring up and charge for connection time > which is essentially the same as paying for each seperate mail message. > > I'm not saying this will happen tomorrow but it will happen. > It's happenned. It costs me real money to read Usenet stuff, and about the same money as a letter to post stuff. I'm using a personal computer on a commercial BBS service tied through to USENET. Tomorrow is today already. .../greg